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  • Although a bishop pawn on the 7th
  • rank is a draw, White can still win
  • if the pawn is on the 6th rank.
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  • Black threatens to advance the pawn
  • to the 7th rank which will draw ...
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  • ... so the check is necessary.
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  • Again Black wants to move the pawn
  • up.
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  • ... so the check is necessary.
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  • Again threatening to advance the
  • pawn.
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  • Force Black to defend the pawn.
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  • Black defends the pawn and threatens
  • to advance it.
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  • This pin on the pawn is the position
  • we have been trying to reach.
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  • He can't advance the pawn while it is
  • pinned.
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  • Nor can he advance the pawn while he
  • is in front of it.  So Black can
  • make no progress while his king is on
  • b2 or c2.
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  • So he makes an attempt to advance the
  • pawn this way.
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  • Here comes the king.
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  • This is Black's last hope to advance
  • the pawn.
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  • But White has a trick to stop the
  • pawn forever.  Soon the queen
  • will go to c1 and then the white king
  • will march in and it will be all over
  • for Black.
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  • Not much choice.
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  • And White wins the pawn.
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